Prominent singers included Tang Kee-chan (鄧寄塵), Cheng Kuan-min (鄭君綿). Prior to the development of popular music in the 1960s, Hong Kong's musical output was dominated by Cantonese opera and English pop. Like Japan, audio cassettes have never been big sellers in Hong Kong. Larger music stores, such as HMV in Hong Kong, stock a more extensive range which includes classical music, Cantonese opera in addition to the aforementioned genres. Most retail music stores in Hong Kong carry Cantopop, Mandopop, imported English language pop music, Japanese pop music and Korean pop music. Traditional Chinese Huangmei opera, on the other hand, had peaked in the 1960s amongst the general Chinese population.Īs an "open economy", a vast variety of music is commercially available in Hong Kong. Ĭantopop's popularity increased sharply due to the improved status of the language and the large Cantonese Chinese population in the city. Also, a Cantonese song Tai siu yan yun (啼笑姻緣) became the first theme song of a TV drama. In the 1970s, Hong Kong audiences wanted popular music in their own dialect, Cantonese. During the late 1960s and 1970s, Mandarin pop songs were getting more and more popular and became the mainstream of Hong Kong pop. Cantopop was not popular in 1950s to 1960s since the production of Cantopop was shoddy. Also, listening to Western music showed a person's good taste. The Western music was popular since 1950s as the official language was English at that time. Along with it was the Pathé Records (Hong Kong) record company, which ended up becoming one of the most significant popular record companies in Hong Kong. Beginning in the 1950s massive waves of immigrants fled from Shanghai to Hong Kong. One of the first actions taken by the government was to denounce popular music as pornography.
In 1949 the People's Republic of China was established by the communist party. They are considered the prototype of Chinese pop songs. Mandarin pop songs in the 1920s were called Si Doi Kuk (時代曲). In the beginning of the 20th century, Western pop music became popular. Western classical music was, on the other hand, the principal focus amongst British Hong Kongers with the Sino-British Orchestra being established in 1895. In colonial Hong Kong, pipa was one of the instruments played by the Chinese, and was mainly used for ceremonial purposes.
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